You can block instances on Kbin— go to https://kbin.social/d/lemmy.ml then click the hamburger menu in the upper left and you can block it just like you can a magazine.
To check which ones you’ve blocked you click your name in the upper right > settings > blocked > domains.
You can also filter out specific words in settings (though I haven’t tried this out).
Grad students are definitely in a precarious position in reference to their advisors and to ‘notable’ profs working in their area. Working abroad at the pre-PhD stage (especially somewhere where you don’t know the language) sounds like it compounds the issues. I think home institutions need to do a better job preparing and then protecting their students in this respect including creating avenues for reporting and legal protection.
FAU researchers provide the first quantified observations of the “birth” of purpose in human infants, as they recognize their causal powers and transition from spontaneous to intentional behavior.
Cross posting norms and etiquette? (kbin.social)
I still don’t really understand crossposting or the multiple link options on kbin. What should kbin users know about crossposting and linking?
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Open letter asking to reinstate a censored book chapter and problematizing the fact that commercial publishers are in a position to directly censor academic publications (www.buala.org)
To whom it may concern.
Eureka! Groundbreaking Study Uncovers Origin of ‘Conscious Awareness’ (www.fau.edu)
FAU researchers provide the first quantified observations of the “birth” of purpose in human infants, as they recognize their causal powers and transition from spontaneous to intentional behavior.